For most of the year, snow covers Colorado’s highest peaks. Above about 11,000 feet, cold blustery winds can be relentless through the winter. But summer can transform these Alpine tundra ...

Defrosting alpine tundra soil at a research station northwest of Nederland was found to be releasing more carbon dioxide than it captured each year between 2008 and 2014, according to a new study ...

Although the climate at the higher meteorological station—by far the highest long-term climate station in the United States—has been getting slightly wetter and cooler in recent decades, the station ...

The alpine plants — now far away from their original tundra habitats — have endured millenia of extreme seasonal […] Sign in or Subscribe See Offers Sign In: ...

March 21 (UPI) --As alpine permafrost thaws, new sources of decaying organic matter become available to CO2-emitting microbes.Climate scientists and their models may be underestimating this ...

Alpine tundra releases long-frozen CO2 to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate warming Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Colorado at Boulder ...

The thawing permafrost in Colorado’s alpine tundras may not bode well in the fight against climate change. A new study revealed it is emitting more carbon than it collects each year.

“Until now, little was known about how alpine tundra behaved with regard to this balance, and especially how it could continue emitting CO 2 year after year” Knowles said. “But now, we have evidence ...

With over 45 years of uninterrupted data, scientists at Niwot Ridge in Boulder County are documenting changes in alpine ...

Plants in the Arctic tundra are growing taller because of climate change, according to new research from a global collaboration led by the University of Edinburgh. Stock image of Arctic poppies.

With human-caused climate change, snowmelt is occurring one to three weeks earlier in Alpine tundra environments, and the tree line is creeping ever higher, shrinking the ecosystem, Prusse said.